Alex Partridge

Is RSD potentially, though, a concoction of ADHD and some form of PTSD that comes from all of those criticisms?

Is there a medication that can help with RSD specifically?

I want to expand on something fascinating you said earlier, Bill.

You said that RSD can cause people to avoid other people or avoid putting themselves forward because of that fear of criticism.

And the expansion is, can that avoidance

associated with RSD, can that cause things like agoraphobia or OCD?

It can be missed for that.

And before medications, if someone isn't quite able to get those, do you have any tools to stop RSD or at least perhaps mitigate the reaction or overreaction that might come with that overwhelming sense and feeling of rejection?

it's incredible advice so that's really interesting bill about the non-adhd addict chasing the high and the adhd person perhaps chasing the low um i've spoken to many alcoholics who have adhd and alcohol is the only thing that quietens the mind they're not drinking to go out and party they're drinking to turn the volume down they're creating their adc and it's but again the distinction

Bill, this has been absolutely insightful and truly surreal.

I mentioned at the beginning, and people know, you coined the phrase RSD, and I'm genuinely curious, at that point in time, were you toying with any other acronyms?

What else could you have perhaps called it?

It certainly is incredibly intense.

And I've no doubt, Bill, that this conversation is going to help so many people who will be watching or listening feel less alone and less crazy because, and I don't use that word lightly, sadly, I've spoken to lots of people and that's what they have been called for many years, sometimes even by their doctors, which is truly heartbreaking.

Yeah.

No, not at all.

I was going to move on, Bill, just finally to the audience questions.

We have a section at the end of the show called The Washing Machine of Woes, where a member of the audience... It's called The Washing Machine of Woes because typically we do an ADHD item section.

And my ADHD item, something that represents ADHD for me, is a washing machine because it perfectly summarises my issues with memory because I always...

leave my clothes in the machine after the cycle finishes but i digress um this week bill someone has written in and i'll read it from this card i have a 12 year old with adhd like any 12 year old she is prone to making mistakes and as an overprotective mother i'm terrified i'm going to give her rsd with my criticisms when she grows up how can i avoid this um